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dos command to read txt /p

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Name: scott
Date: December 19, 2001 at 22:41:55 Pacific
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What is the commands to read a readme.txt in dos? I can only remember "type" but I sure have to read FAST to get it...
Thanks! and SEASONS GREETINGS!!



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Name:
Date: December 19, 2001 at 23:02:15 Pacific
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Response Number 2
Name:
Date: December 19, 2001 at 23:05:22 Pacific
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More specifically:

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Response Number 3
Name:
Date: December 19, 2001 at 23:08:00 Pacific
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That's stpd; something fckd up:

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Response Number 4
Name:
Date: December 19, 2001 at 23:12:27 Pacific
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I give up


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Response Number 5
Name: clever
Date: December 20, 2001 at 01:07:07 Pacific
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Scott, do this:

MORE < readme.txt



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Response Number 6
Name: TomChen
Date: December 20, 2001 at 02:27:00 Pacific
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or

type readme.txt | more


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Response Number 7
Name: The Doofus
Date: December 20, 2001 at 05:30:46 Pacific
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Of course you could always just:

edit readme.txt


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Response Number 8
Name: name
Date: December 21, 2001 at 14:19:23 Pacific
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What they are trying to say is, use the "pipe" charactor, which on my machine is uppper case above the \ (backslash).

However, this does not work apparently with DOS whatever as supplied with windoz9x, or maybe it won't work with some file formats.

Ya, look for edit.com and use that.


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